Ranma ½

Ranma 1/2 is about a young man named Ranma Saotome, of the Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts. His father, Genma Saotome, takes Ranma on a training mission to China. There, Ranma and his father fall into the Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo. Each spring has it's own individual curse, depending on what drowned in it many years ago. When splashed with cold water, Genma becomes a rather large panda, Ranma however, turns into a rather buxom read-haired girl. When splashed with hot water, they return to their original form.

To complicate matters, Genma has promised his old friend, Soun Tendo, to marry his son Ranma off to one of Tendo's three daughters. Kasumi, age 19, Nabiki, age 17, and Akane, age 16. When Ranma and Genma arrive in cursed form, nobody knows WHAT to think. To make things worse, Akane, a tom-boyish young girl, gets defeated in practice by Ranma-chan (female form), then stumbles onto Ranma's secret when she encounters Ranma-kun (male form) in the shower, both of them naked.

After sorting things out, Kasumi and Nabiki decide Akane should be Ranma's fiance, because "Akane hates boys, and since Ranma is half-girl...". Akane and Ranma get in a fight immediately, which ends up with Ranma calling Akane "un-cute", and Akane smashing Ranma over the head with a table. A beautiful start to a beautiful relationship.

Ranma 1/2 is a romantic comedy.